Gary > Bush is no more then a boil on the ass of all this and thinks himself a blossoming rose.
These authors seem to think that he is more like the worm in a bottle of tequila.
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>>>George Bush is an alcoholic. Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic, according to neuroscientists. Bush's brain was changed by his substance use. And his brain did not return to its "normal" or predrinking state after he stopped drinking. Proof positive of that is that he is showing signs of a new addiction-an addiction to power.
His addiction to power has corrupted his view of what America is about. He has decided, along with his "enablers," Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Rove and Perle, that he should make pre-emptive strikes against any possible future foes and justify those strikes to the American people wrapped in a cloak of "I protected you for the sake of your future and that of your children." He has also created a rhetoric of exclusion, wherein anyone who does not buy his side of the argument or its premises, is labeled a "traitor." And in his rhetorical and psychological scheme, the patriots are those who buy into his vision.
His rhetoric of exclusion has frightened and intimidated the Congress and the media. Neither of them is willing to stand up to his ad hominem attacks for fear of being called a "traitor." Thus, Bush and his Iraq invasion advisor, Rumsfeld, attacked any journalist who made negative or critical comments. Even the celebrated Christine Amanpour had to defend herself and her fellow journalists because they'd reported the killing of civilians and the looting of the Iraq Museum.
No one is allowed to disrupt the perfection of the addict's power hungry world. This was seen in dictatorships of Joseph Stalin, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, and even Bush's contemporaries, Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe. They were all men who were addicted, drunk with power and did, and would do, anything necessary to assert their perfect control over their universe.
Of course, this is anathema to a real democracy. But kind of democracy do we have? Secret searches, secret detention, secret trials? What's next? Secret executions?
Bush is destroying the country he swore to protect. As Paul Krugman wrote on May 7, in the New York Times, "that was another country", referring to America and where it is today in comparison to what we were before Bush got drunk on power.<<<
The real problem, however, is that Bush didn't create the dinosaur --- he's only its jockey --- or more correctly, as you say, the boil on its ass. |
